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Two classes of shapes work, they proved: “boring parallelograms” and “surprising cyclic quadrilaterals,” cyclic meaning that all vertexes of a quadrilateral lie on a circle.

From New York Times

In the Blue Brain graph, for example, three neurons with all three synapses between them transmitting signals formed the vertices of a hollow triangle.

From Scientific American

Consider a triangle, a simple geometric object — what mathematicians call a graph — with three edges and three vertices where the edges meet.

From New York Times

Using automated image analysis, they examined the centers and vertices of these cells to find variations in their shapes and sizes.

From Scientific American

The operation, called perfect matching, involves generating an equivalent graph in which each vertex is connected to only one edge.

From Scientific American